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Sex offenses, sex offender issues in prison, jail, civil commitment and the community including residency laws. Adam Walsh Act, recidivism, dangerousness, tiers, community issues, harassment, vigilantism, sex offender therapy issues.
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The 10th Cir Court of Appeals issues decision on "Internet anonymous free speech" of Utah's sex offenders

Posted on October 28, 2010
10-28-2010 Utah: Folks may remember this case from 2008 where Utah had amended its registry laws to require registrants to turn over their Internet IDs, Passwords and any place on the Internet they visit. Well Mr. John Doe, who was no longer on parole or probation or any other form of supervision, sued to stop the enforcement of the law against him...

Proposed Bill To Ensure Sex Offenders Properly Register

Posted on October 26, 2010
10-25-2010 Ohio: COLUMBUS, Ohio -- State Representative Nancy Garland announced her plans to introduce legislation that will ensure all sex offenders will fulfill their registration requirement, Monday. The bill, developed by Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, was created as a fix to an unintended consequence of a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision...

South Carolina Sex Offender Law Offers No Protection At School Bus Stops

Posted on October 25, 2010
Sex offender laws are not supposed to protect anyone at bus stops, and there is a reason for that, no registered sex offender has ever abducted or committed a sex crime at a school bus stop, which was in front of or close to his/her home. Fear mongers have posed the idea, but the reality is, this is not how offenders commit crimes...

Fears of juror biases often prevent rape cases from making it to trial, Cuyahoga County prosecutors say

Posted on October 25, 2010
10-25-2010 Ohio: CLEVELAND, Ohio -- One factor can trump all others when prosecutors are deciding whether to take a sex assault case to trial or to give the accused a plea deal: the public's preconceived notions of what constitutes rape. More than most crimes, rape stirs emotions within the public consciousness and prompts gut reactions to the circumstances and characters involved...

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Dallas police 'erred badly' in turning away sex offenders who sought to register

Posted on October 24, 2010
10-24-2010 Texas: Sex offenders who must update their registration with the Dallas police have been routinely turned away after waiting outside the department door for hours. "I've got to abide by the law or they put me back in prison," said one offender who asked not to be identified...

Mailer links Lynch, offenders

Posted on October 24, 2010
10-24-2010 New Hampshire: A Cornerstone Action mailer sent to voters this week tries to link Gov. John Lynch to sex offenders granted an early exit from prison under legislation reforming the state's parole system. "Introducing Team Lynch," the flier reads, above a smiling photo of Lynch flanked by mug shots of four men who were granted parole a month ago, before they had reached their maximum prison sentences...

SPECIAL REPORT: Prison suicide rates rise; solitary confinement adds to risk

Posted on October 24, 2010
10-24-2010 New York: Just days from her 23rd birthday in June and six months before possible release from prison, Danaroy Countryman did something that an unusually high number of state prison inmates have done this year. She hanged herself in her cell...

North Dakota State Hospital Receives Accreditation

Posted on October 23, 2010
10-22-2010 North Dakota: BISMARCK, N.D. - The North Dakota State Hospital, which is part of the N.D. Department of Human Services, received full Joint Commission Accreditation for its hospital and behavioral health care programs following on-site survey reviews in Jamestown, N...

U.S. court affirms Meza entitled to sex offender hearing

Posted on October 22, 2010
10-21-2010 Texas: Convicted child killer still held under miminum security in Travis County as state ponders appeal The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to reconsider a decision that Texas improperly placed sex offender conditions on convicted Austin child killer Raul Meza, affirming an earlier ruling that criticized the way Texas' parole officials handled the case...

Sweep updates E.L. sex offender information

Posted on October 22, 2010
Here we begin to see what "non compliant" means, one reason is failed to keep paperwork up to date. I have no idea what that could mean, because all paperwork is completed by registrants in front of the registering agent, and if there is anything wrong with it, the agent should catch it and ask the registrant to fix it right then and there...

Law enforcement wraps up yearly sex offender sweep

Posted on October 21, 2010
Although there are some interesting statistics below, I wonder why "Domestic Violence" money was used to perform sex offender address verifications? And, notice the number of officers involved, which equates to SALARIES! 10-20-2010 Illinois: The eighth annual family violence and apprehension detail closed in Lincoln County with just 20 registered sex offenders out of compliance after the Oct...

Political grandstanding drives GPS tracking grant

Posted on October 21, 2010
10-21-2010 Texas: From Grits for Breakfast Using federal grant money, Texas is putting GPS monitors on several hundred additional parolees who the Governor says are dangerous sexual predators. But some of them have never been convicted of a sex offense, aren't on the sex offender registry and have been out of prison for many years...

High Court: State Can Continue To Maintain Restricted Sex Offender List

Posted on October 21, 2010
10-21-2010 Connecticut: HARTFORD ? ? The state can continue to maintain, at least for now, a separate sex-offender registry that is available to law enforcement, but not the public, according to a state Supreme Court ruling released this morning. A much larger online registry maintained by the Department of Public Safety, and established under Megan's Law, is available to the public...

Paedophile-hunting show under fire

Posted on October 20, 2010
10-19-2010 Germany: BERLIN - A GERMAN television show that attempts to unmask paedophiles using a young actress as bait came under attack on Tuesday after a suspect vanished. The programme called Scene of the Crime: Internet - Protecting Our Children and hosted by a high-profile political wife is based on a similar US show, To Catch A Predator, that went off air after the suicide of a suspected molester in Texas in 2007...

Court hears sex offender housing case

Posted on October 20, 2010
10-20-2010 Pennsylvania: Plaintiffs say ordinance left them with nowhere to live Local residency restrictions that force sex offenders to live in outlying communities -- away from jobs, transportation, family and treatment -- are contrary to the goals of rehabilitation and reintegration...

Iowa law clusters sex offenders in Davenport trailer park

Posted on October 19, 2010
10-19-2010 Iowa: DAVENPORT, Iowa -- The same home address has been given to the Scott County Sheriff?s Department this year by 18 registered sex offenders. West Kimberly Park, 4847 W. Kimberly Road, Davenport, is one of the few rental places in the county that is at least 2,000 feet from any school or day care, which means it complies with state law as an eligible place for certain sex offenders to live...

Sex Offender Sweep Kicks Off

Posted on October 19, 2010
Amazing, sever years they have done this, and all that has been accomplished is to incarcerate those who failed to update the address of where they sleep for a few hours of the day/night. Not only do taxpayers foot the bill for the time spent by the officers to do the address checks, taxpayers will also pay for the costs of jailing those who failed to update addresses...

Study: Sex offender law changes may not have boosted community safety

Posted on October 19, 2010
10-19-2010 South Carolina: Does South Carolina?s sexual offender registry help cut down the number of new sex crimes? Does it decrease the odds that people listed on it will reoffend? A group of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina spent the past five years examining those questions and outlined its findings in a report released recently...

NATV airs special on sex offenders

Posted on October 19, 2010
There is nothing that this officer can say on TV which could not be said in a brochure which can be handed out. In fact, what can be said that is NEW, which hasn't been said for years. Why waste taxpayer money? Unless the officer is really trying to promote "hey we are doiung something" whether or not it has any effect on reducing crime...

Clinton County launches Offender Watch program

Posted on October 17, 2010
SOmetimes one must step back to see the problems a system causes, below the Offender Watch system: Updated at a different frequency than the state registry. Other agencies -state and federal- rely on information from the state registry, Offender Watch system causes discrepancies between local and state, obviously a problem...

New Twist in Stephen Brodie Case; Deaf Man Was Wrongly Imprisoned for 10 Years

Posted on October 16, 2010
10-16-2010 Texas: DALLAS (CBS/AP) Police on Wednesday arrested a convicted child molester whose fingerprint was found at the scene of a 1990 sexual assault on a 5-year-old girl - a crime for which a deaf man, Stephen Brodie, was wrongly convicted. Brodie was exonerated last month after spending 10 years behind bars...

New York Senate: STANDING COMMITTEE ON CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION (2009-2010)

Posted on October 16, 2010
Critical Comments Made by the Senate The Adam Walsh Act would take New York in a dangerously opposite direction, besides the fact that experts agree that it would cost more to implement than the state would stand to lose in federal grant money. --------------- All of the empirical research examining the effectiveness of residency restrictions shows that residency restrictions do not work to reduce the risk of harm to children...

Questioning the Effectiveness of Sex Offender Registries

Posted on October 14, 2010
10-13-2010 South Carolina: (HealthNewsDigest.com) - Charleston, S.C. - Two federally-funded MUSC studies on South Carolina's sex offender registration and notification system and its effect on community safety revealed that prosecutors often pursue non-sexual charges or fail to get convictions for sex crimes since the registry was enacted in the mid-90's...

ALERT: Announcement covering all blogs by eAdvocate

Posted on October 14, 2010
10-14-2010 National:Many of my readers know I have forwarded news articles and research, using special request e-mails; this has been very popular w/readers. I have tried to accommodate every request made of me (i.e., pass on this type of article, but not these...

2 firms bidding for sex offender treatment counseling

Posted on October 14, 2010
10-14-2010 Arizona: KINGMAN ? Mohave County is looking at two firms to provide treatment services for adult sex offenders. The county?s probation department is evaluating two firms, DeLynn Lamb of Cedar City, Utah, and ABC Therapy Counseling Center of Bullhead City to provide sex offender treatment services for adults on probation who have been convicted of sex offenses...

Pa. school settles 2 webcam-spying lawsuits for $610K

Posted on October 14, 2010
10-14-2010 Pennsylvania: PHILADELPHIA ? A Philadelphia-area school district agreed yesterday to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptops. The Lower Merion School District admitted it captured thousands of webcam photographs and screen shots from student laptops in a misguided effort to locate missing computers...

Man turns Halloween pictures into child porn

Posted on October 13, 2010
10-13-2010 Georgia: Mr. ___ wasn?t just satisfied with downloading hundreds of images of child porn. He had to get pictures of girls he knew, girls he saw in his neighborhood and put their faces on nude bodies. He had to make it look like these girls, some as young as 10, were having sex with him...

Bus-stop rule is lifted

Posted on October 13, 2010
10-13-2010 Georgia: Columbia County school officials on Tuesday rescinded a 4-year-old resolution in which they set the location of bus stops, unwittingly testing a state law cracking down on sex offenders. Officials hope the revocation will prompt a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit against Columbia County Sheriff Clay Whittle...

PBSO Launches New Program to Manage Sex Offenders, Not Just Exile Them

Posted on October 13, 2010
10-13-2010 Florida: In a world where residency restrictions exile convicted sex offenders to live under bridges and on park benches, a glimmer of sanity has emerged. Working with psychology professors at Lynn University, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has launched a new program to individually assess the threat posed by each of the 890 registered sex offenders in the county and monitor them accordingly...

Escaping the ?Scrapers?

Posted on October 12, 2010
Scrapers have a major impact on registered sex offenders credit files.10-12-2010 National: The Internet has given rise to a dizzying array of people-search sites and data brokers that gather and compile public information and social-networking profiles...

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